Critical Analysis of a Current Trend in Technological Communication {Google Docs}

Google Docs is defined as, “a freeware web-based office suite offered by Google within its Google Drive service. It also was a storage service but has since been replaced by Drive. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating with other users live”. On the Google Docs home page, it allows you to “Meet your Drive”. My Drive is the home for all the files that you create. With Google Drive for your computer, you can sync documents from your PC to My Drive. This is considered an “open source program” because you can open it wherever you have an internet connection. This site allows you to generate and format text documents and share them with other people live. The functions with Google Docs are truly endless. Wherever you go, your drive goes with you. You can organize, edit and share it from any computer at drive.google.com, or when you’re on the go, with the Drive mobile app. Drive lets you upload photos, videos, documents, and other files that are significant to you and your daily life to Google Drive. The best part of all Drive is that it automatically saves your information for you so you will never lose your information compared to a flash drive. You get all of this with 15 GB all for free.

Many high school and college students will use this program to complete essays, spreadsheets, presentations, etc. It is a very neat tool to be on top of your game and stay organized. The best part of it all is that if you have a group project, then you can “share” the document, spreadsheet, or presentation and you can all work on it at the same time on separate computers. Google Docs simplifies the educational life that much more and relieves the stress of splitting up an assignment and working on it at separate times and any other stresses or difficulties that come about. Google Apps includes tons of serious security features precisely designed to keep your files safe, secure and protected for your use only. Your data belongs to you, and Apps tools qualify you to control it, including who you share that information with and how you share it. Google’s data center system provides remarkable security and assures reliable admittance to that data from anywhere.

                The next time you have to write an essay or present a slideshow to your office, but don’t want to spend money on a flash drive, you can use Google Docs. It’s such an easy tool with simple instructions that anyone can follow and comprehend and it helps you to get the job done. Even if your computer shuts down or restarts unexpectedly, you won’t ever lose that information because Google Docs automatically saves all of your information and data for you already. Spread the word because Google Docs is the new Microsoft Office and can make your life so much easier without all the hassle behind saving documents and buying a USB stick/flash drive. The new technology is here and is ready to be used by many of Google’s users.

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/49008?hl=en

https://drive.google.com/#my-drive

Critical Analysis of a Current Trend in Technological Communication {Facebook}

Facebook is defined as “a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them”. It was founded February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes. People can make a bunch of new friends on this network and share photos with the world. This network sounds very open and it can be; however, you can change your privacy settings which is usually how must users feel it should be. Plenty of employers will research you and if they find photos or statuses that you’ve taken and typed that they don’t find to be professional, you will lose that opportunity. Facebook can be a very optimistic website for everyone to get to know each other a little better; however, it can also go in the complete opposite direction if the wrong people are using it.

            “Facebook’s not just for keeping tabs on friends and filling out quizzes — it can also be used as a highly effective business tool. It’s great for marketing your products, landing gigs and connecting with your customers”. Facebook usually has ads on the right-hand side bar and it could potentially help improve businesses. Even though Facebook gives you the opportunity to upload photos and post statuses and all that jazz, it also allows you to “like” a page. If for example your business isn’t doing relatively well, you can spread the word about it and have people “like” the page on Facebook and it will receive more attention.

            This website can improve your friendships and also form new ones. If someone sees that you have a lot in common or sees that you have a lot mutual friends, they may want to send you a friend request. The possibilities are truly endless with the amazing functions available with this website. Even though we love to meet new people and share our stories and secrets, it may not always be the best idea in this modern time. Many people give out to information and leave their profile very public and can end up being stalked or even in a very intense situation, killed from being too open. Everyone needs to have privacy settings where only your friends can see what you do and say and make sure you really know those “friends” on Facebook in real life.

            Facebook also helps actors, musicians, and other celebrities trying to reach the top of fame. Most celebrities have fan pages and the more “likes” they get, the more known and popular they become. A lot of videos are embedded onto Facebook and millions of users watch them daily. This fragment of Facebook really helps the entertainers out there trying to become big in the showbiz world.

            News is constantly being spread throughout Facebook. There is always news about this actor and that singer. Some of it may be rumors, but a lot of it is usually true and there will even be links to an article to better help you understand the issue at hand. The news may be exciting and joyful, but it can also be depressing and upsetting. Either way, Facebook helps diffuse those stories to the public.

            We also know that this wonderful website allows to play games such as “Farmville”. We have all gotten those pesky game requests from our friends that drive us up the wall, but Facebook gets us hooked on that silly stuff. Facebook is very sneaky and has lured us all in, even our parents of this generation to register for an account and become addicted. There are endless uses for this website that we don’t take into account.

           

http://gigaom.com/2009/07/21/32-ways-to-use-facebook-for-business/

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-02-03/opinions/35442928_1_active-users-mark-zuckerberg-facebook

http://mashable.com/category/facebook/

Critical Analysis of a Current Trend in Technological Communication {LinkedIn}

LinkedIn gives you the opportunity to “Manage your professional identity, build and engage with your professional network, and access knowledge, insights and opportunities.” It was founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003 by Reid Hoffman, Konstantin Guericke, and Allen Blue. LinkedIn surprisingly started out in the living room of co-founder Reid Hoffman in 2002. This website that allows people to interact in qualified professions.  With this website you can build your professional identity online and stay in touch with colleagues and classmates. You can discover professional opportunities, business deals, and new ventures right at your fingertips then you never knew were available. Also, get the latest news, inspiration, and insights necessary for you to become successful.

Some commonly implemented facts about the business end of LinkedIn are only when someone is confident that you have a good reputation and are reliable, will they consider doing business with you. Due to this, you need to be careful with what you post on any social network and stay professional. If a possible new boss does research on you and sees you drinking every night, then they most likely won’t want to have you on their team. Employers are making decisions based on more than traditional media; consumers consider websites, blogs, search, email and social media to validate their decision. Your public profile on LinkedIn performs as your “Social Selling Business Card”, once you enhance and adjust your LinkedIn profile, it will grab the attention of employers more and more. Since LinkedIn is an authority site, your LinkedIn profile is ranked by value and categorized.

A very small number of users on LinkedIn ruin the experience for some members of the social networking program. The members actions contains not using a real name/person as the profile owner, falsifying info, creating fake profiles, trying to use someone else’s account, tremendously inviting people they don’t know, and using the data in a way not approved or proposed by LinkedIn’s Terms of Service. When users want to end this abusive use of LinkedIn, you can email them or fill out the contact us at, http://help.linkedin.com/app/ask. There are many other links given directly from LinkedIn’s website that allows you to easily get rid of the spam and abusive users, or report them.  LinkedIn tries their best to keep their website functioning for the purposes that it is intended for.

LinkedIn helps reinvent the idea of employment ads. “60% of professionals are open to job opportunities but not actively looking”. LinkedIn fixes that miscommunication problem and shows you those open opportunities from employers. This website guides you in the right employment direction and shows you jobs that you might be interested in based on other information that you’ve filled out. With LinkedIn, you can expand your job postings and you don’t have to go through the hassle of posting everywhere. You can allocate your posts to thousands of other websites using “world-class targeting”. Display your jobs publically on a diverse network on the web to become more exposed to that diverse field. To reach sponsored jobs, you must increase the visibility for your most significant roles to get 30-50% more applicants for your high priority positions.

http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=what_is_linkedin

http://www.linkedin.com/company/clicktecs/linkedin-tutorial-how-to-use-linkedin-for-business-923904/product

http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/03/27/how-to-report-abusive-behavior-on-linkedin/

http://press.linkedin.com/about

http://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/products/jobs.html

Critical Analysis of a Current Trend in Technological Communication {Twitter}

Twitter is described as a place where you can, “Instantly connect to what's most important to you. Follow your friends, experts, favorite celebrities, and breaking news”. T.W.E.E.T. stands for target, write, engage, explore, and track. People believe that social media is a terrible thing, and in some cases it could be seen that way, but if it is used correctly, then it is a great tool. This app lets people voice their opinion on any topic that they can think of. The total number of active registered Twitter users is estimated to be 554,750,000 people. It’s crazy to think that I am just one of the users included in that very large statistic. Some of the reasons why Twitter is used are to simply participate in the new phenomenon of tweeting, to communicate with your followers or group, to communicate with the World-at-large, to archive your online and/or offline activities, and for branding a product or service, because it’s required by a school assignment.

Twitter allows you to promote your business in a positive light. The social app connects you to your a larger audience of customers world-wide. Engaging with your customers will allow your business to grow and become more popular, especially when using hashtags. Due to the large amount of followers one may have on twitter, it becomes easier to “spread the word”. Twitter was once used to help the unemployed. This project brought attention to many people and made a true difference. On the other hand, Twitter can be used negatively when socializing with other people. It can cause drama and can practically set a rude tone that may not even be existent.

Even in the white house Twitter is a huge problem to look out for. A White House national security staffer was reportedly fired for Twitter postings under alias and that is a serious issue that we should pay regards to. Jofi Joseph was his name and the account, titled @natsecwonk, was deleted last week. The posts never mentioned any detailed and high classed information; however, it did contain details that should not have been put out to the public in any which way or form. The tweets discussed unappealing views on Obama’s administration policies and administration officials.

Twitter can also help shine some light on a new TV show, movie, or talk show, for example. It can gain popularity and become very successful due to the large audience. From another point of view, people can make rude comments on that TV show, movie, or talk show and that program can become unsuccessful as well depending on the “consumer” of the “product”.This app can project news across the world rapidly, which can be important for foreign countries; however maybe the United States wants to keep that information to themselves in case that information should not have been given out to the public just yet. From a recreational point of view, a simple random tweet may be funny to some of the public and may be “retweeted” or “favorited”. Others may find that random tweet to be offensive to let’s say their religion, sexual preference, or anything else of the sort.

Twitter can be abused by users called trolls. These “trolls” are people who use their accounts to send out abusive messages directly to another individual. In order to prevent these people from getting away with this you can easily use the block button, report abusive tweets or spam, report abusive tweets to the police, force accounts reported as abusive into "protected tweet" mode, flag repeat offenders with a yellow flag, which appears on their account details, and many other solutions are available online.

http://www.statisticbrain.com/twitter-statistics/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-national-security-staffer-fired-for-twitter-postings-under-alias/2013/10/22/f668a618-3b94-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.html

http://greenbananablog.org/2010/01/brief-summary-of-twitter-uses/

http://www.twitip.com/3-ways-to-create-social-change-using-twitter/

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jul/29/twitter-abuse-dealing-with-trolls-options

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